Chinese American Petroleum Association is pleased to announce the 2015 Petroleum and Petrochemical Technical Symposium to be held on Friday, October 30, 2015.The Southwest Section of the Chinese American Chemical Society (SW-CACS) will continue to co-organize the downstream / petrochemical session with CAPA, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) will sponsor the student paper contest.

The symposium venue is the Marathon Conference Center, 5555 San Felipe, Houston TX 77056, courtesy of the continuing, generous support from Marathon Oil Corporation.

The symposium will focus on “The Challenges and Opportunities to the Energy Industry for Anemic Oil Prices and Increasingly Stringent Environmental Regulations”. We encourage you to submit presentations relevant to the symposium theme. Exceptional technical papers will be considered for future Global Chinese Petroleum and Petrochemical Technical Symposiums (GCPPTS) to be held in Houston or other locations.

CAPA student members are encouraged to submit their papers to the Student Paper Contest session and take this opportunity to share their research results as well as to improve their presentation skills.

Symposium Program Outline

(1) General Session (Morning):

Four to five invited keynote speakers from major oil companies and the service sector will discuss high-level, current and future challenges, opportunities and solutions. A special keynote speaker will be invited by SW-CACS to discuss the downstream/petrochemical aspects.

(2) Parallel Technical Sessions (Afternoon):

·Deepwater and Conventional Exploration & Production

·Unconventional Plays

·Engineering and HSE

·Business Development

·Downstream / Petrochemical (Co-organized with CACS-SW)

·Student paper contest - All student papers will be oral presentations in English. Awards will be given at the end of the session ($500 – 1st place; $300 – 2nd place; $200 – 3rd place).

(3) Abstract Submission

·Abstract: one-page in English, including your brief biography. Please use the attached template for your abstract